Improvement in high-chair and carriage



F. GHIGHESTER. High Chair and Carriage.

Patented .luly 8,1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN OHIOHESTER, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN HIGH-CHAIR AND CARRIAGE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217.341, dated July 8, 1879; application filed February 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN OHIoHEs- TER, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Ohilds Combined High- Ghair and Carriage; and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters, of reference marked thereon, making part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improved childs combined high-chair and car riage; and the invention consists in a childs combined high-chair and carriage constructed with four legs, with their upper ends immovably fixed to the seatframe, and their lower ends immovably fixed to bars, the bars having rollers attached to them, the chair also having adjustable supports which elevate the chair in one position, and in another position form a push-handle and brace for the same, substantially in the manner hereinafter described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my invention used as a highchair, with one of the roller-bars partly broken off to show slots in their inner sides for adjustable supports; Fig. 2, a front view, partly in section, through linex m, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a side view of my chair used as a carriage.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents the seat fraune of the chair, to thetrear of which is fixed a back, a, and to which are also fixed the arms I), in the ordinary manner. To the under side of the seatframe, and at its four corners, are immovably fixed legs (3. To the lower ends of these legs are secured, immovably, bars B, these bars being nearly parallel with the sides of the seatframe, but projecting somewhat to the front and rear of the seat-frame. To these bars, which for convenience I shall call rollerbars, are fastened rollers or wheels 0. To the front projecting ends of the bars B is fixed the foot-rest (l, and to the rear projecting ends of thebars is fixed a support, D. This support is attached to the rear projecting part of the roller-bars B by pivotal bolts 6, so that it upper ends and projecting outwardly.

may be freely turned upon said bolts. Also, to the roller-bars B is secured a support, E. This lastmentioued support is held in place to the roller-barsby swivelnns f, fixed to their These swivel-pins-enter into slots 9, formed in the inner edge of the roller-bars B, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Also, in the support E, and on its outer surface, extending. midway from its length to near its lower ends, are formed slots h, and into these slots are received swivel-pins i, which are fixed to the inner surface of the support D midway between its ends.

The chair constructed substantially as above described is operated as follows: When designed for use as a high-chair to be occupied by the child at a table, the supportD is drawn down and beneath the roller-bars B, extending beneath the roller-bars and toward their frontin a diagonal direction. As this support D is moved to assume this position, the support E at its upper end willslide toward the front of the roller-bars, being held in position and guided in its movement by the pins f at its front ends, which travel in the slots g in. the inner edge of the roller-bars, and as the support D assumes the diagonal position before described, the swivel-pins iin this support travel in the slots h in the support E to the upper extremity of the slots, and when in this position the supports D and E will cross each other nearly at right angles, forming substantially, when in this position, legs for the chair, to elevate it for the purposes of a high chair, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Now, to transform the chair into a trundlechair, the supportD is turned upward parallel with the back of the chair, and when in this position the support E is inclined beneath the seat-frame A, as shown in Fig. 3, and when the supports D and E are in this last-named position, the support D then forms a pushhandle, the support E a brace for it, and the rollers O are then brought in contact with the floor, and the chair may be pushed in any direction desired.

Having now described my invention, what I- substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In a childs combined high-chair and earriage, roller-carrying bars and supports for the seat-frame immovably fixed to their upper surfaces, in combination with crossed under supports provided with pivots and slots at the intersection of said supports with eaclr other, and with pivots and slots in the roller bars, whereby the under crossed supports may be adjusted to form a push-handle at the back of the chair, and a brace for said handle ex tending beneath the chair-seat when the chair is used as a carriage, substantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

FRANKLIN OHIGHESTER. Witnesses JOHN G. SPENCER,

PETER T. GRAVEs. 

